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A visit to the Art Gallery…

02/08/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized3 Comments on A visit to the Art Gallery…

Paid a visit to the Art Gallery of WA today, to view an exhibition and also to celebrate a birthday of a dear friend in our group… I won’t mention the name of the artist because to be blunt I…

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Takes the Bronze

30/07/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized22 Comments on Takes the Bronze

My new cocktail dress… I’m kind of in love with it.  Wish I could be wearing it all day, if that was in all way appropriate (might attract a few sideways glances in the supermarket, for one)  And as for…

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On growing old gracefully

26/07/201021/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized3 Comments on On growing old gracefully

Today met my girlfriends for a get-together and debrief after the school holidays… {You know how when something is troubling you, a good bit of advice is to write a long letter to yourself where you can purge all the…

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TGl Friday

23/07/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized3 Comments on TGl Friday

Today was meeting friends for morning tea, and another friend for a walk later (and afternoon tea afterwards, no doubt!)  It’s a tough life.  My office work can wait until tonight, methinks… and it would be a crying shame to…

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Olive and grape

11/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on Olive and grape

Hilariously I started out this morning dressing with a view to wearing my suit jacket I’ve been talking about.  But it didn’t look as good over this dress as well as I’d envisioned in my head, and a few discarded…

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From sack to svelte

03/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized11 Comments on From sack to svelte

A wardrobe re-fashion: I had been planning to make myself a useful LBD for winter this year but struck gold at the secondhand shop… I felt incredibly lucky when I found this at a price less than fabric would have…

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“Jailbreak” dress

02/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized18 Comments on “Jailbreak” dress

Remember this fabric and pattern? Well I made it up over the weekend and submitted a review of the pattern to Pattern Review.  I’m still getting the hang of that site.  The other day I realised (lightbulb going off!) that…

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Champagne in the city

28/05/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized7 Comments on Champagne in the city

I am sometimes accused, by family members who shall remain nameless, of never wearing an outfit more than once.  Well, ahem, I do wear things more than once, but choose not to bore readers of this blog with repeat photos…

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